Four: Lieutenant F. W. A. Wright, King’s African Rifles, late Imperial Yeomanry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (6932 Pte., 44th Coy. 12th Impl. Yeo.); 1914-15 Star (Lieut.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.) good very fine (4) £110-150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals Formed by The Late A. A. Mount.

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Frederic William Agustine Wright was born in Morpeth, Northumberland and attested for the Imperial Yeomanry at Norwich, Norfolk on 9 January 1900. He served with the 44th (Suffolk) Company, 12th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa between 5 March and 8 November 1900. In the Great War he was appointed a Subaltern with the 4th (Uganda) Battalion King’s African Rifles on 28 January 1915. He relinquished his commission due to ill health on 10 March 1916. Sold with 27 sheets of copied service and related papers.